A snapshot.

There's been a lot of discussion about the impact of these multiple deployments on employer relations.

I think there should be no doubt in anybody's mind that we are very committed to making sure that our military people are well compensated.

Just let me, as the Chair, make a couple of comments.

First of all, was to include them for the first time in a GI Bill. It never happened before.

How does that affect your ability to train up a ground soldier?

Senator, I'm not familiar with the article, but I think you raise, obviously, a very important question about the extent of prescription drug use and whether this is an indicator of stress, or is this a new push to medicine?

There's a lot of questions, here in Congress, about how that reflects upon the dignity of Service, quite frankly.

I really want to work on this so we can aggressively address it.

Well said. In that respect, it probably goes back to one of the possibilities that I was raising here.

17 percent of the Active-Duty Force, and as much as 6 percent of deployed troops, are on antidepressants.

I'd just say as an observation, one, we do have a really stressed, young force, because of these deployments.

Yes, I've actually heard them in other hearings, so----

TRICARE will not be affected, as long as I have anything to do with it.

I know Senator Graham has to go, and he wanted to----

There's no greater responsibility for Congress and military leaders, as our witnesses all know, than to care and provide for our servicemembers and for their families.

We will do so with men and women of the highest caliber whose willingness to serve, is a credit to this great Nation.

Does anyone else have any thoughts on that?